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Awards and Recognitions

(i)         ICA-Dr. R. Chidambaram Lecture Award (2025)

(ii)         IPC Council Member of The Asian Crystallographic Association, AsCA2025

(ii)               B M Anand memorial lecture (2023) by Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

(iii)             MRSI Distinguished Lecturer Ship Award (2021) by Materials Research Society of India

[In recognition of versatile and outstanding contributions to scientific research in general and the advancement of materials science in particular]

(iv)              D. Sc (h.c.) by Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal (2018), Presented by the then Governor of West Bengal in Rajbhavan, Kolkata

[For immense contribution to the research in physical science]

(v)                DAE Group Achievement Award for commissioning of a Neutron Powder Diffractometer (2018)

[For developing the Neutron Powder Diffractometer at Dhruva Reactor, BARC] by Department of Atomic Energy

(vi)              Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics by JNCASR, Bengaluru (2016)

[For Distinguished Physics contributions in Magnetism]

(vii)            MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize by Materials Research Society of India (2016)

[In recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of materials science]

(viii)          P. K. Iyengar Memorial Award for excellence in Experimental Physics 2012 by Indian Physics Association (IPA) (2014)

[For excellence in Experimental Physics employing neutron scattering]

(ix)              Rashtrya Gaurav Award by The India International Friendship Society (IIFS), New Delhi (2011)

[For outstanding research contributions]

(x)                DAE Group Achievement Awards (2009) for upgrading and operating the neutron

facility for neutron beam research at Dhruva, by Department of Atomic Energy

[For contributions in neutron instrumentations and utilization of neutron beam]

(xi)              DAE – Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award (2008)

[For outstanding contributions towards understanding the magnetic, electronic, and structural behaviour of many technologically important magnetic materials of current interest]

(xii)            Materials Research Society of India Medal (2008)

[In recognition of significant contributions to the field of Materials Science and Engineering]

(xiii)          DAE Science Research Council (SRC) Outstanding Research Investigator Award (2005-2011).

[For Outstanding work on “Effect of Size, Dimensionality and Disorder on Magnetic and Electronic Properties”]

(xiv)          U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fellowship (1997-98)

(xv)            The Spanish Ministry of Science and Education-Fellowship (Dec 2004-Dec 2005, Feb-April 2006)

(xvi)          N. S. Sathya Murthy Memorial Award from Indian Physics Association (1996).

[In recognition of his contributions to neutron scattering from magnetic materials especially to depolarization measurements leading to bridging the gap between microscopic neutron diffraction measurements and macroscopic magnetization measurements]

(xvii)        First Best Young Physicists Award from the Indian Physical Society (1996).

[For work on Magnetic studies in mesoscopic length scale: A neutron depolarization study]

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INAE Section Affiliated

VIII: Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Year of Election to Fellowship

2025

Year of Birth